LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE sixth Christmas Party, given by the staff of the Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the staff at Head- quarters, to poor children of Poplar, took place on 4th January at the Bromley Public Hall. There were 170 children present....
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The Danish Steamers Bothal and Viking
MARCH 20TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The Danish steamers Bothal and Viking had been sunk by torpedo, with the loss of thirty lives. and the survivors were left adrift on rafts. Two of these rafts were seen by an RAF machine...
Carillion of Wight
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
Under the Bridges of Dublin Sailed Three Students from Trinity College Last Year Keith Lee Paddy Benson and Ciaran Mcguckian
Under the bridges of Dublin sailed three students from Trinity College last year. Keith Lee, Paddy Benson and Ciaran McGuckian braved a temperature of only 2 degrees centigrade, a 25 knot wind and flour and egg bombing from fellow students... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Doing the Rounds
Rita Dlxon, member of Mirfield ladies guild, organised a sponsored bed and wheelchair push around Dewsbury and District Hospital raising £264 for the RNLI. Rita, an employee of the hospital, was joined by her son John, colleagues Joan... - View image in PDF
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The Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, on the 12th ultimo, presided over by Mr. C. G. TURNER, Controller-General of la- land Revenue, it was reported by Mr.
CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon....
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Arthur
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the morning of the 27th May information was received that a vessel in the vicinity of Haile Sand was firing signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat Richard were summoned, and at 4.30 the...
The Bishop of Exeter Dedicating the Plymouth Life-Boat
{Behind him are Lady Jellicoe and the District Inspector ol Life-boats.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Help to the Vessels of Foreign Countries.
The year was notable also for the large number of lives rescued from foreign vessels. In the midst of war the life-boat service has never forgotten its undertaking to rescue all in peril at sea, whatever their nationality. There were...
Category: Articles
The Pyrene Company Ltd
THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
9 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.I VICioria 8474 Head Office and works BRFNTFORD, MIDDLtStX Canadian plant: TORONTO Australian plant: MtLBOURNE Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the...
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